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Hermaphrodites and the understanding of sexual difference in the early seventeenth century
Ágora, 2021 In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo de Castro, Caspar Bauhin and Jean Riolan, dealt in their works with the anatomical and social problems posed by the hermaphroditic body.
Palmira Fontes da Costa
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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]
, 2008 Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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Open Library of Humanities, 2020 This article argues that the trope of the young ward being threatened with enforced marriage by their guardian remained popular on the late seventeenth-century English stage, despite changes in the law of wardship which offered more protection to wards ...
Lotte Fikkers
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]
, 2008 Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel +7 more
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George Starkey, an Early Seventeenth-Century American Entomologist [PDF]
, 2017 Between the earliest known North American entomological observations made by John White (Wilkinson, 1973a) and Thomas Hariot, and the beginning of more systematic investigations by John Banister (Ewan and Ewan, 1970) and other collectors in the late ...
Wilkinson, Ronald S.
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2022 Paleotsunami deposit investigations and numerical tsunami computations have been performed to elucidate the source and size of large tsunamis along the Kuril to Japan Trenches, particularly for unusual tsunamis that occurred in the seventeenth century ...
Kai Sato +4 more
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Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching Culture
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2003 In the national religious studies there was a tendency to know the origins of national spirituality. Such treatment is required by all those processes that take place in the cultural and religious plane of our country.
O.P. Rozumna
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Blending the secular and sacred: instrumental textures in seventeenth-century worship
Musicologica Brunensia, 2014 In the seventeenth century composers employed traditionally secular instrumentations, such as that of the solo violin or ensembles of brass or string instruments, in concerted settings of liturgical texts.
Kimberly Beck
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Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2008 Based on his doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of London, the present book is a wonderful study of the Sufis ofAurangabad (and, more generally, in the Deccan realms of Hyderabad’s Nizams) and their consequent legacy in independent India ...
Sajjad H. Rizvi
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A Title Page of Michael Praetorius
De Musica Disserenda, 2019 The well-known title page used by Michael Praetorius for several of his publications provides a starting-point for a discussion of the way large-scale music was directed in early seventeenth-century Germany. The practice of depicting composers with rolls
Peter Holman
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